Patrick Leonard lost to a dead hand, a kilopole specialist won a long-awaited bracelet, Mike Moncheck makes excuses for all-in in the dark.
The most discussed topic of the past week on the world series was the distribution of Patrick Leonard from the tournament for $2,500.
“Just fell victim to one of the worst decisions of WSOP managers,” Patrick wrote. – We are approaching the bubble in the tournament for 2.5K, I put an all-in on the river, the opponent thinks about six minutes. They called Flora, timed the time, he counted: “5, 4, 3, 2, 1, dead hand.” I breathed a sigh of relief, after which the opponent said “call”, and he was counted. Another flora was called, who confirmed that everything was correct. My neighbor said five seconds had passed; I think it’s less, closer to three. One of the participants recorded the distribution on the video, I asked Florov to watch VAR, but they refused. The dealer also said that I was right. Brad.
– Here is a video of the distribution. The people at the table were already beginning to guess what I had, ha ha. It is clearly seen that he said Call much later than time has elapsed. What the fuck.
“WTF, I would throw such a scene that the guards would have to take me by force,” John Monnett wrote.
“Don’t be angry, but I just wouldn’t let the tournament continue until they made the right decision,” Scott Seaver agreed. “To move me, they would have to call security.
“You can get a man out of Bobby’s Room, but Bobby’s Room never,” Sam Greenwood quoted Scott and John’s posts.
– Absolutely right! Monnett confirmed. – One of the most useful skills that is taught there is to protect yourself!
“A few hours passed, and no one remembered the legendary Gobbo call in Wynn,” Steve O’Dwyer remembered the distribution of 2009.
On the desk Scott Sever put all-in deuces and got a call from one of the most popular players of those times, Jimmy Fricke.
“You won,” Scott said and moved the cards towards the dealer without opening them.
Fike showed The dealer dipped Scott’s hand, after which he raised all the casinos into his ears, trying to prove his case. But the organizers remained adamant, the tournament ended for him.
– Here is the continuation of the video, – Patrick posted another video. The dealer did everything right. He told Flor that he was wrong, and then he approached me twice and apologized for such a decision.
Patrick then tried to get justice with the elder flora.
– He came, made a decision in 10 seconds and left. I clarified with the first Flora whether the player managed to say the call until the end of the countdown. Hearing an affirmative answer, he said that there was nothing to discuss here, and he would listen to nothing more. He ignored my objections, as well as the words of the dealer and other players.
I already let go of the situation, but then I saw him not far from our table and approached to talk calmly. He repeated once again that he would not discuss this situation with me.
In the comments, they urged to name the name of the “winner” of the opponent’s surrender, and Flora fired.
“I wouldn’t want that,” Patrick replied. – This is a completely inexperienced Flor, when we communicated for the second time, he looked very upset, I even felt a little sorry for him. I think it was the first time he encountered such a difficult decision. This time he was wrong, but I’m sure he can still be a great pro. His boss Zach trusted his words, I also have no complaints about him.
I definitely don’t want anyone to be fired. Let them learn better from their mistakes so that other players do not face such injustice.
I myself made more gross mistakes at the poker table.
I also have no complaints about my opponent. I saw that he was uneasy from the whole situation. After the distribution, his stack became five times larger than mine, and he suggested that I exchange equal shares. He was genuinely worried.
For me, the case is closed. Everyone is wrong.
Representatives of the world series officially did not comment on the situation in any way.
Pokernews editor Chad Holloway tweeted that the organizers told him that during the countdown, Flor was distracted by his watch and did not orient that the word “call” sounded too late.
For this tweet, Chad was obstructed and quickly removed. The video clearly shows that it was completely different.
“Of course, I deleted it,” Chad did not deny it. – There is no point in what they told me if I watch the second video. And I didn’t see him then.
The tournament in which this scandal occurred ended with the victory of Josh Rehard.
Before the series, Josh was considered one of the strongest American offline grinders without a bracelet. He has 17 wins in WSOP Circuit tournaments, one WPT title. On the world series, he almost every year comes close to the bracelet, and does it in huge kilopoles.
In 2023, he took 2nd place in Minimaine with a buy-in of $1,000 (5,257 entries), in 2025 he flew in 3rd place in Millionaire Maker for $1,500 (11,996 inputs), in this series ranked 3rd in PLO/NLHE for $600 (3,332) and 3rd place in Mystery Bounty for $10K (558). In the winning tournament, he beat 1.736 opponents.
When asked if he was angered by the fact that he stopped a few times a step away from the bracelet, Josh replied:
– It’s poker, most often we lose here. I am an optimist, but also a realist. I understand perfectly well that the bracelets are very difficult to win.
Mike Moncheck played this tournament in parallel with the $50K Player Championship. In the first hand, he pushed it in the dark and with 97o won a triple all-in against and .
“I don’t understand why WSOP advertises such behavior,” one of the commentators was surprised. – There is nothing good for the game, it does not increase interest in poker and does not attract a new audience.
“People just go crazy because of my all-in dark,” Mike answered all the haters at once. – There is only one tournament with unlimited children in the schedule, all the other freezouts or with two entrances. Due to heart problems, I can’t spend the same amount of time at tables as other players. I’d rather use all the entrances, but I’ll get an extra hour of rest. I don’t regret anything.
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The second bracelet in this series in the open tournament was won by a girl – Michelle Chin won the 2-7 tournament with a triple exchange for $1,500.
11 years ago, Michelle became the first woman to win the WSOP Circuit main tournament.
– I thought that winning the tournament is easy, but the second victory had to wait 11 years. In those years, I owned a restaurant, and played poker for fun. Then I did not realize how significant my victory was. Only later did I realize how few women play poker. This is not surprising, the situation here is not the best for us.
Last year’s Millionaire Maker ended in a loud scandal. The heads-up participants received an indefinite ban on WSOP and still do not play.
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This year’s tournament was held in a calm atmosphere and made two regulars as millionaires at once. There were 11,769 entrances in total, but only representatives of the United States entered the final table. The Russian-speaking audience could only cheer for the young Harry Gurevich, whose parents were born in Russia and Ukraine.
This tournament was broadcast with open maps on the WSOP channels. Because of this, the championship of players with the $50K buy-in was left almost without attention. Poker social networks have been seething with indignation and bewilderment for the second day. All tweets with intermediate chip-counts were accompanied by a wave of angry questions “Where is the broadcast?” But the organizers assure that the wide audience of Hold’em is much more interesting.
The only WSOP employee who somehow communicates with the audience is Jeff Platt.
“I will write one post about our broadcasts so as not to answer everyone separately,” he wrote when Millionaire Maker ended. – I know that some of you liked the Milly Maker Ethers. I know that some are satisfied with the balance we found between the tournaments we choose to broadcast and the others. And of course, I know that many were dissatisfied with the way we show PPC.
We value all viewers. it’s true. And we continue to look for the right balance.
Tomorrow we will show absolutely all the distributions of the final table PPC!!!
This is only the first year of such a large-scale investment in the production of content by WSOP. In the second year we will try to make it so that everyone can see what he is interested in.
Stay with us.
“Honestly, this is a complete shame,” multimillionaire Dan Shak expressed the opinion of many ordinary poker fans. “You had a chance to focus on the Ivy fillet, which we see very rarely lately. But you ignored it, although it may well fly to the final table.
Fortunately, Dan’s fears were not confirmed. Phil entered the final table of the players with the penultimate, but still quite playable stack.
Dmitry Shakhov, Ilya Gorodetsky and Mikhail Semin will comment on the game on poker channels tonight. The air will start at 3:30 with the pre-show, and the game will start at 4:00.
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